Friday, October 6, 2006

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9 AM

breakfast

9 - 10:45

Esther Duflo (and Michael Kremer):
"Why Don't Farmers Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Field Experiments in Western Kenya"

10:45 - 11:15

coffee

11:15 - 1 PM

Dilip Mookherjee (and Pranab Bardhan):
"Land Reform, Decentralized Governance, and Rural Development in West Bengal"

1 - 2:30 PM

lunch

2:30 - 5:30

MICHAEL WALLERSTEIN MEMORIAL SESSION

Karl Moene: In pursuit of equality

Adam Przeworski: Michael's early work

David Austen-Smith: "Redistribution and Affirmative Action" (co-authored with Michael)

Miriam Golden: "Domestic and International Causes for the Rise of Pay Inequality: Post Industrialization, Globalization and Labor Market Institutions" (co-authored with Michael)

John Roemer: "Socialism vs Social Democracy as Income-Equalizing Institutions"

Saturday, October 7, 2006

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

9 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

coffee

11:15 - 1 PM

Karla Hoff (and Ernst Fehr and Mayuresh Kshetramade):
"Norm Enforcement under Social Discrimination"

1 - 1:45 PM

lunch

1:45 - 2:15

Network Members (only) Meeting

2:15 - 3:45 PM

Michael Kremer (and Dan Wood):
"Peter Singer vs Charles Dickens"

3:45 - 5:30 PM

Roland Benabou (and Jean Tirole):
"A Cognitive Theory of Identity"

Sunday, October 8, 2006

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8 - 8:30 AM

breakfast

8:30 - 10:15 AM

Sam Bowles:
"Inequality in the Very Long Run"

10:15 - 10:30

coffee

10:30 - 12:15 PM

Benjamin A. Olken:
"Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages"